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In this article:

  • Before deleting a cluster
  • Deleting a cluster
  1. Step-by-step guides
  2. Clusters
  3. Deleting a cluster

Deleting an OpenSearch cluster

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at January 30, 2026
  • Before deleting a cluster
  • Deleting a cluster

You can delete an OpenSearch cluster if you no longer need it. All data in the cluster will be deleted.

Before deleting a clusterBefore deleting a cluster

  • Disable deletion protection for the cluster if it is enabled.
  • Save the cluster ID.

You will need the cluster ID when restoring a deleted cluster from a backup.

After you delete a database cluster, its backups will be kept for seven days for recovery purposes.

Deleting a clusterDeleting a cluster

Management console
CLI
Terraform
REST API
gRPC API
  1. In the management console, select the folder where you want to delete a cluster.
  2. Navigate to the Managed Service for OpenSearch service.
  3. Click for the cluster in question and select Delete.
  4. Confirm cluster deletion and click Delete.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI installed yet, install and initialize it.

By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

To delete a cluster, run this command:

yc managed-opensearch cluster delete <cluster_name_or_ID>

You can get the cluster name and ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

With Terraform, you can quickly create a cloud infrastructure in Yandex Cloud and manage it using configuration files. These files store the infrastructure description written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.

Terraform is distributed under the Business Source License. The Yandex Cloud provider for Terraform is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license.

For more information about the provider resources, see the relevant documentation on the Terraform website or its mirror.

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

To delete a cluster created using Terraform:

  1. In the command line, go to the folder that houses the current Terraform configuration file with an infrastructure plan.

  2. Delete the resources using this command:

    terraform destroy
    

    Alert

    Terraform will delete all the resources you created using it, such as clusters, networks, subnets, and VMs.

  3. Type yes and press Enter.

Timeouts

The Terraform provider sets the following timeouts for Managed Service for OpenSearch cluster operations:

  • Creating a cluster, including by restoring it from a backup: 30 minutes.
  • Updating a cluster: 60 minutes.
  • Deleting a cluster: 15 minutes.

Operations exceeding the timeout are aborted.

How do I change these limits?

Add a timeouts section to the cluster description, e.g.:

resource "yandex_mdb_opensearch_cluster" "<cluster_name>" {
  ...
  timeouts {
    create = "1h30m" # 1 hour 30 minutes
    update = "2h"    # 2 hours
    delete = "30m"   # 30 minutes
  }
}
  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it in an environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Call the Cluster.Delete method, e.g., via the following cURL request:

    curl \
        --request DELETE \
        --header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        --url 'https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-opensearch/v1/clusters/<cluster_ID>'
    
  3. View the server response to make sure your request was successful.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it in an environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Clone the cloudapi repository:

    cd ~/ && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/yandex-cloud/cloudapi
    

    Below, we assume that the repository contents reside in the ~/cloudapi/ directory.

  3. Call the ClusterService.Delete method, e.g., via the following gRPCurl request:

    grpcurl \
        -format json \
        -import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
        -import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
        -proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/mdb/opensearch/v1/cluster_service.proto \
        -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        -d '{
                "cluster_id": "<cluster_ID>"
            }' \
        mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 \
        yandex.cloud.mdb.opensearch.v1.ClusterService.Delete
    
  4. View the server response to make sure your request was successful.

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